In central Syria, factory owner Rashid al-Faysal watches his staff working tirelessly to churn out a controversial antimalarial drug that Damascus hopes can help treat the novel coronavirus. There is no proof yet hydroxychloroquine works to prevent or cure COVID-19, but Syrian doctors have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Militant Daesh group on Thursday has killed two US-backed fighters in eastern Deir Ezzor province amid hike in snap attacks against Kurdish forces and Syrian regime proxies. According to Zaman al-Wasl source, Daesh militants has attacked a checkpoint for the Syrian...

An attack by the Daesh group in the Syrian desert killed 20 regime and allied fighters, a monitoring group and activists said Thursday. The fighters died in an attack on their vehicle between Al Sukhna and Al Shula in the area straddling Homs and Deir Ezzor provinces, the Syrian...

Syria postponed a parliamentary election for a second time Thursday as part of measures to protect the war-battered country from the coronavirus pandemic. The Syrian government has recorded 44 cases, including three deaths in areas under its control, while the Kurdish administration in...

Turkish and Russian troops have carried out the ninth joint patrol along a key highway in northwestern Idlib province, Turkey’s National Defense Ministry said Thursday. “Within the framework of TUR-RF Agreement/Protocol, the 9th TUR-RF Combined Land Patrol on M-4 Highway in Idlib was...

 Syrian business tycoon Rami Makhlouf remains at one of his homes in Syria, despite publicly criticising President Bashar al-Assad in a rare display of dissent by a key member of the country's ruling family, Middle East Eye has learnt. Makhlouf, who is also Assad's cousin, is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Health Ministry has put under quarantine a family of four members after father was tested positive for the novel coronavirus, local news site said on Wednesday. The confirmed case was reported in the district of Kafr Batna in the eastern enclave of Damascus....

As dusk settles on the forest of gutted buildings around them, Tareq Abu Ziad and his family break the Ramadan fast on the remains of their home. The northern Syrian town of Ariha looks like the scene of a monster earthquake -- a silent, grey sea of loose cinder blocks and mangled iron...

(Zaman Al Wals)- The Syrian pound on Tuesday fell to a new record low on the black market, following Bashar al-Assad's warning of economic challenges plunge most of the Syrian people into poverty. Dealers said it cost as much as 1350 Syrian pounds in the capital to buy one dollar on the...

Children ran up and down the alleyway of the Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley as two women squatted down next to each other with a plate of courgettes they were preparing for that night's dinner.  The women were not wearing gloves or face masks while they worked, undaunted...

Israeli airstrikes in eastern Syria killed 14 Iranian and Iraqi fighters and wounded others, some seriously, an opposition war monitoring group said Tuesday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the late Monday strikes in eastern Deir el-Zour province targeted...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One person was killed by an improvised explosive device in opposition areas in northern Aleppo province, activists said Tuesday. The attack took place in the border town of al-Bab east of Aleppo city. Bomb attacks have been mounted on Turkish-held areas in...

 Turkish and Russian forces have carried out their eighth joint patrol along a key highway in northern Idlib region, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday. “Within the framework of TUR-RF Agreement/Protocol, the 8th TUR-RF Combined Land Patrol on M-4 Highway in Idlib was conducted...

Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a research centre and a military base in the northern province of Aleppo in the second such raid in less than a week, state media said on Monday. The Syrian regime army said in a statement that Israel hit military barracks in al...

President Bashar al-Assad warned Monday of a "catastrophe" in war-battered Syria if the easing of lockdown measures against coronavirus is mishandled. The government in Damascus has officially recorded 44 cases of COVID-19, including three deaths, while Kurdish authorities in the country's...

Turkey will no longer tolerate terrorist harassment in the Idlib safe zone in northwestern Syria or ramped-up attacks which flout agreements, Turkey’s president said Monday. Terrorist groups are trying to exploit Turkey's preoccupation with the coronavirus pandemic to step up attacks...

 Human Rights Watch Monday called for an investigation into a spectacular gorge in northern Syria that has been used as a dumping site for dead bodies over several years. The 50-metre-deep hole in a desert area of Raqa province was once controlled by the Daesh group, when it still...

Unknown gunmen abducted and killed nine policemen Monday in southern Daraa province in a rare such attack on a government building in the defeated cradle of the nine-year uprising, a monitor said. The killings, for which there were no immediate claim of responsibility, occurred in the...

The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) expects that Russia, Turkey and Iran will reach a consensus to remove the head of the Syrian regime, Bashar Al-Assad, and establish a ceasefire in exchange for forming a transitional government that includes the opposition, members of the regime...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- A three-year-old child was severely wounded when his tent caught fire in a makeshifts camp in northern Idlib province, activists said Sunday. The child boy has been admitted to a border Turkish hospital after pleas by opposition activists. Medics...